Stories from the University of Cambridge
Agriculture and Sustainability
Tools
Applications
Stories from the University of Cambridge
Tools
DNA resources and common standards for plant synthetic biology, focused on Marchantia engineering.
Developing open-source silicon hardware designs and the “Silicon Commons” as a collaborative framework.
Applications
An electrochemical sensor designed to continuously monitor the pH of tomato xylem sap, as a marker of abiotic stress.
A low-cost, easy-to-build and -use image analysis system to measure plant root area and nematode infection, along with other phenotypes.
Automating seed imaging and high throughput germination analysis for a variety of crop seeds.
Open source software to pair with a backpack LiDAR device for measuring canopy-level crop performance.
Open-source platform using analysing aerial imagery acquired by low-cost drones using machine learning and plant phenotyping algorithms.